Trump: #1 Enemy of the Future

posted by CEC Editorial Board | 0sc
June 02, 2017

Donald Trump has just given humanity a big push towards the cliff’s edge. By foolishly rejecting the Paris Climate Agreement, Trump will go down in history (if “history” endures) as the world’s worst leader and worst enemy of the future ever. He has chosen irreversible global warming as the world’s future. We now join the laudable company of Syria and Nicaragua, the only two nations that did not join the deal to begin with.

Citing damage to the economy as his reason, he does not get that the economy is a subset of the environment – without a supportive climate, all economic enterprise is ultimately doomed. Beholden to fossil fuel interests, he ironically chooses economic devastation for the United States, rather than the clean energy revolution of the 21st century.

Any notion that the Paris Agreement can still stand strong is wishful thinking for several reasons:

While other nations are reaffirming their commitment to the Deal (as they should), it is important to note that the US is the second-largest carbon polluter, and the largest historical carbon polluter. So US withdrawal has an outsize impact.

Current pledges still allow heating to soar far beyond the 1.5-2°C goal – more like 3.5°C.

So far, no nation is keeping up with its promised reductions anyway.

US withdrawal will encourage other nations to do likewise.

We consistently maintain three things:

The Paris Agreement is insufficient; a livable future requires the world to go far beyond current Paris pledges.

US leadership is vital for this to happen.

The world cannot survive four years of Trump. We can only hope that his ruinous incompetency, corruption, and delusional perspective take down Trump and all his teamsters soon.

If this all sounds alarmist, it is because alarms need to be sounded. Now—and loudly.

If we fail to reverse this suicidal move, we will be guilty co-conspirators as Donald Trump and his administration blatantly destroys the safety, security, and economy of the US, the future of humanity—and the world.

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Climate Emergency Coalition (CEC) is a lead organization creating the national conversation on the climate emergency to result in a declaration of Global Warming State of Emergency and an Emergency Climate Mobilization. CEC is working to alert, engage, and activate Americans to call for responses to meet the scope, scale, and urgency of the crisis: national climate policies and an emergency mobilization to phase out fossil fuels within a decade.